Critic Reviews
No Man's Land (2001) Rank 3 Reviews
Expert Review Summary
based on (160) reviews
Click on the numbers to the right of the graph to see reviews of that rating
Fair
1
(0)
Poor
0
(0)
Reviews by Score:
Baltimore City Paper (Lee Gardner)
filmcritic.com invades No Man's Land
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The Movie Chicks
Enemy soldiers find themselves trapped in a trench - two are Bosnian and two are Serbs. The Serbs, believing that they are alone, booby-trap a dead body (only he's not really dead). Ciki (Branko Djuric) attacks them, killing one of the Serbs and ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at The Movie Chicks
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
No Man's Land won the 2001 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which proves the Academy voters do, occasionally, take the time to watch those promotional DVDs the studio's mail out earlier in the year. That's good news for director Tanovic and the ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Patton would have been disgusted.
Modern wars (at least, those not involving the U.S.) aren't fought man to man, or even tank to tank. They're fought in the dead of night, when everyone thinks the United Nations "peacekeepers" aren't watching. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
UpcomingDiscs.com (Jeremy Frost)
Straight off of its Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, No Man's Land has been released by MGM. This is a gem of a film, and should be seen by all fans of international cinema. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Jeremy Frost)
DVD Clinic ("The Shootin Surgeon")
Two soldiers, a Bosnian and a Serb form the ultimate odd couple when they both find refuge in the same trench to avoid the crossfire of their respective armies. Another Bosnian soldier is stuck on a landmine waiting for him to twitch to blow them all ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at DVD Clinic ("The Shootin Surgeon")
ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
Other anti-war films like the epic Apocalypse Now! and Saving Private Ryan have operated on far larger budgets and showed more realistic blood and guts while dealing with universal questions. A few years ago the ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
An interesting foreign war movie featuring a nice balance between drama and humor, an eye-opening perspective on the Bosnian conflict and some beautiful, and I mean beautiful (I'm not kidding) surroundings. In fact, that's one of the things that really ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
... a gripping piece of combat theater. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
A bare-knuckled, absurdly comic and at times unbearably tense look back at the madness of the Bosnian conflict. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
Film Threat (--)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Fierce, funny and finally devastating. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
eFilmCritic.com (Preston Jones)
Film Threat (--)
Empire Magazine (--)
Film Threat (--)
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Tom Grealis)
An intelligent and expertly-judged microcosm of the inanity of war. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Tom Grealis)
Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
Washington Post (Desson Howe)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
IndependentCritics.com (Jacob Hall)
CultureDose.net (Christopher J. Jarmick)
Reviews on the Side (Steven Lekowicz)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
In this expertly calibrated debut, Tanovic charts the ebb and flow of these events, which began in a fog and end in a Pyrrhic tie, as a global ripple that is everyone's business. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Hollywood.com (--)
Movie Habit (Andrea Birgers)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
"No Man's Land" was this year's surprise Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film. A few years ago that award went to "Kolya", whose filmmakers went on to give us this week's laughable World War Two movie "Dark Blue World". Somehow I don't see that ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Palo Alto Weekly (Joe Mader)
Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
Perhaps the film's best element is its final shot, wherein so much of the message, visible but understated throughout, is brought to bitter focus. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
The film would have been a stunner under any circumstances, but with the situation in Afghanistan and the Middle East worsening on a daily basis, No Man's Land feels even more relevant. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
David N. Butterworth
But in order to flesh out his story, Tanovic moves his players out of the trench and introduces us to characters that, frankly, don't have the zeal or the determination or the forbearance of our beleaguered leads.There's a stiff upperlipped British ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at David N. Butterworth
Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Tanovic's film is coil-sprung to explode on the unsuspecting. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
A skillfully wrought, if somewhat predictable, farce involving belligerent opponents, blundering international peacekeepers and excitable journalists. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
A Waiting for Godot for art-house movie buffs. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
While the audience has its laughs along the way, the violent tension of war often threatens to erupt, and slowly, subtly gathering force is the film's emotional weight. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Premiere (France) (--)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
The absurdity of war has been played out in film, ad nauseum. Apparently all of these films have no influence in real life. This film is about another war -- a not too long ago one in Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia. Remember that one? Just when we were ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
dvdfuture.com (George Castillo)
DVD Net (Terry Kemp)
The Rewind Forums DVD Review
Cyber-Funk Online Review
DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
DVD Verdict (Erick Harper)
Frank's Reel Reviews
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
CultureDose.net (John Nesbit)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Edinburgh U Film Society (Steph Wright)
digitallyOBSESSED.com (Kevin Clemons)
Wolf Entertainment Guide (William Wolf)
The Hot Button (David Poland)
Jump Cut. Magazin für Film und Kritik
musicOMH (Shawn Fitzgerald)
Matinee Magazine (Jason Clark)
Skimps on character development for such a politically-charged movie ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Matinee Magazine (Jason Clark)
CountingDown.com (Larry Carroll)
We learn absolutely nothing about the ideologies of these people or their reasons for fighting. They are virtually interchangeable... ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at CountingDown.com (Larry Carroll)
Movie-Vault.com ("Sinomatictool")
Political Film Society
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
High Plains Reader (Greg Carlson)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
The Boston Phoenix
The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
MovieEye.com (Frank Ochieng)
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Reel.com (Pam Grady)
Philadelphia City Paper (Sam Adams)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
CineScene.com (Nathaniel Rogers)
MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)
Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Fantastica Daily likes No Man's Land
DVD Review (Staci Layne Wilson - Hollywood Entertainment News)
Film Freak Central
Kinoeye (Ilya Marritz)
Entertainment Insiders (Sean Keeley)
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
Matinee Magazine (Joe McGovern)
[Tanovic's] movie, while its aims are well-meant, cannot avoid getting grazed by the friendly-fire of its own high-mindedness. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Matinee Magazine (Joe McGovern)
Edward Johnson-Ott
I've frontloaded this review with positives in the hope that you will see "No Man's Land" despite the fact that it's subtitled. I realize that many people loath subtitles, but the production, in Bosnian, French and English, is more than worth the ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Edward Johnson-Ott
from $6.09 (13 sellers)
del.icio.us
Digg
StumbleUpon
Yahoo! My Web
Facebook
Google Bookmarks
ma.gnolia
Newsvine
reddit
Windows Live